Keeping tabs by non
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I use the custom variable add-in to keep tabs on my outgoing expenses. But that kind of requires me to write daily logs. Something that I'm quite deterred to do off late.

But it has been a good way for me to keep tabs. In a fun sort of way, rather than my normal expense log on excel.

I was handling my plastic money fees yesterday. My CC habits are actually quite mundane. In terms of payment that is. I treat my plastic money as a short term borrowed transaction because I really don't like carrying money around. You can always almost expect my wallet to just have the necessary amount per day to spend on cash-stores.

For big purchases, my stand is, its buy-able if I have that amount to spare in my account. And as soon as I am home, I would log online and pay off the expenditure for the day. So every month, I don't have anything to pay off from my CC outstanding balance.

Some of the people at work are quite awry of using CC. They said that CC are the root of most debt-story, or that they'd get uncontrollable urges to spend more than they can actually afford. I understand their sentiments, but I myself don't really see what the scare is about as long as you know how to handle your money, the coming ins and the going outs. A little bit of self control, goes a long way. At times, you just need one to pay for an amount that is ridiculous to carry around in times like these. Even having more than $200 makes me jittery. So there are advantages to using a CC. You'd have to have a steady paycheque of course, to use it without the misuse.

Respecting the host by non
25th Jan 2008 @ 10:11 am - Subscribe

The first wave of emotion/feelings, were nerves and adrenaline. It likens to stage fright without the fright so to speak.

And then, I read something which triggered a negative emotion in me, because of the way a subject was approached, or rather, the way a comment was made that it did not pay heed to the neutrality of a discussion. Regarding blogs or online journals, personal ones at that, I have reasons to believe that the author has rights to write, and if it is for public eye (which means, they expect people to be reading it), he/she may approach subject of sensitivity with a neutral tone and impartial judgement (if that is possible at all). "May" isn't "MUST". However, commenter to the entry, ought to have some sort of respect for that personal space the author has. There is no legal term here, it's just what I believe works for me, because blogging is a case of take it or leave it. If you don't agree, then don't agree. If you do, then yay, good for you.

In other words, commenter should respect the 'house' they are in, and don't just blatantly write comments.

Or maybe I was just a tad bit too sensitive in this department? Maybe, maybe not.

Then again, when you think about it, its always the defensive people who irks you the most. And defensive people are WAY too stubborn.

Perception by non
27th Jan 2008 @ 9:19 am - Subscribe

And I asked our IT officer, because we had been chummy for a bit and because he asked me the question first and I had replied honestly, "So what was your first impression of me? For your information, I have been told prior, that people at times perceive me as a snob, and introverted snob"

He laughed at that.

He instead said, "My first impression of you was this - 'selamba'"

I was stumped. Nonchalant? That wasn't very good was it? And I asked him what he meant by that.

He said that he thought I was a very modern Muslimah (how ever that had meant), and that despite I was fully clad in hijab and jubah as usual, I am not demurely silent and act like typical be-tudung-ed girl.

I didn't know whether to be offended or take it as a compliment. But I knew he was being honest and seeing it as a positive side, and not slanderous at all. But the fact that such notions of betudunged girls are still rampant, even amongst educated people irks me quite a bit.

I told him, well, you must have not met that many betudunged girls then. It was partly light sarcasm, and partly supposed to be a statement to rebut his initial opinion. Then again, my own self may have already done that for him eyh?

Another thing, as much as I am very liberal in some terms, I don't quite like it if it is outwardly seen that way. I rather people classify me as a snob on first impression, if not something nice. It's actually better than 'selamba'. Really. I almost equated selamba to easy. Which is not appealing the very least.

Test entry by non
27th Jan 2008 @ 2:13 pm - Subscribe

See. I can.